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Editorial Nominal Record Linkage Revisited Whereas some recent writers on historical psephology1 have tended to stress the desirability of semi-automated linkage methods that continue to rely on a high level of manual interaction with the data, Charles Harvey and Edmund Green here offer a rigorous alternative approach based on the selection of optimal linkage algorithms that can be used in a fully automated procedure. Can we look forward to a future article in which some disinterested third party provides the results of a comparative evaluation of these rival methodologies, preferably applying them to the same body of data? Name standardization is a process frequently referred to in essays about database design, as well as as Waiting to chair a session on record linkage at the AHC's Southampton (UK Branch Annual) Conference in 1991, I overheard this worldly-wise exchange between two of the younger delegates: 'What's this about?' asked the first wearily. 'Nominal Record Linkage, I think,' replied his companion, looking down to consult the programme. Then, after a pause, he added: 'Nothing new to be said, is there?' Well, perhaps they're doing better at predicting numbers in the National Lottery! Not only was the session that followed something of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing Edinburgh University Press

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh University Press
ISSN
1753-8548
eISSN
1755-1706
DOI
10.3366/hac.1994.6.3.iii
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Abstract

Nominal Record Linkage Revisited Whereas some recent writers on historical psephology1 have tended to stress the desirability of semi-automated linkage methods that continue to rely on a high level of manual interaction with the data, Charles Harvey and Edmund Green here offer a rigorous alternative approach based on the selection of optimal linkage algorithms that can be used in a fully automated procedure. Can we look forward to a future article in which some disinterested third party provides the results of a comparative evaluation of these rival methodologies, preferably applying them to the same body of data? Name standardization is a process frequently referred to in essays about database design, as well as as Waiting to chair a session on record linkage at the AHC's Southampton (UK Branch Annual) Conference in 1991, I overheard this worldly-wise exchange between two of the younger delegates: 'What's this about?' asked the first wearily. 'Nominal Record Linkage, I think,' replied his companion, looking down to consult the programme. Then, after a pause, he added: 'Nothing new to be said, is there?' Well, perhaps they're doing better at predicting numbers in the National Lottery! Not only was the session that followed something of

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International Journal of Humanities and Arts ComputingEdinburgh University Press

Published: Jan 1, 1994

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